friday night, austin and i just did our usual. we rented a movie {the oxford murders, pretty good} and ate a frozen pizza. saturday moring, austin's mom picked up julie boo to watch her for the weekend as austin and i headed to the atl. that's atlanta, georgia, in case you didn't know.
first stop, dave & buster's in marietta. basically it's a chuck e. cheese for adults. you buy tokens, play all sorts of games, win tickets and then cash in those tickets for {mostly crappy} prizes.
austin did the flight simulator. note the concentration in his face.
then we found this janky little game hid way back in a corner. austin won the jackpot on it. twice.
we ended up with 1,314 tickets. yeah, we really racked up. check out our loot.
after we left dave & buster's, we headed to downtown atlanta to check into our hotel. after navigating some really obnoxious one-way streets, we finally found it: the hyatt regency. pretty nice, if i must say so myself. {we got it on priceline, we're not that fancy on purpose}. the lobby is under construction, but it was really nice regardless.
austin snapped these pictures from our window/tiny balcony.
saturday night, austin and i met up with j.j., my cousin who lives in atlanta. we went out to dinner at mellow mushroom with her and one of her friends, then we met up with a few more people to go out for the night.
here's j.j., her friend ava {maybe eva?} and myself.
sunday, austin and i took a detour for me to try on bridesmaids dresses for a friend's wedding i'm in next year. then we grabbed lunch at a mexican restaurant and then it was time to head back to downtown atl for the concert we were going to, which was the actual reason for the weekend trip.
so here's the emotional roller coaster part. motion city soundtrack is pretty much our favorite band. we've seen them a few times and have all of their cds. we missed their show in february due to weather, but anxiously awaited their show in atlanta. we didn't buy tickets in advance, their shows are never sold out and the processing charges online are ridiculous.
mistake. sometime saturday night, i noticed the band's facebook page say the show was sold out.
disaster.
as an act of desperation, i found the band manager's e-mail address and sent an e-mail explaining how we were huge fans, drove all the way to atlanta, missed their show in february due to weather and how badly we wanted to make it to this one. we figured there was no chance in them responding.
we were wrong! he wrote me back and put us on the guest list! we couldn't believe it!
austin and me at variety playhouse before the show started.
the opening bands included a great big pile of leaves, saves the day, and say anything. {no picture of agbpol}
i have to say, all the opening bands were great. say anything really put on a great show. then mcs came out and rocked our faces off.
after the show, austin and i waited around to meet the band and get their signatures on the set list we snagged. the only band member missing was the synth player. don't know where he ran off to.
so that was our mcs adventure for this weekend. we left atlanta around 11:45 sunday night and got back to our house around 1 in the morning.
this morning we met austin's mom at her work to pick up juliet. the second we got home, she snuggled up in her blankets on the couch. she's adorable.
oh, and then i gave her the junior mints box. we picked it out at dave & buster's just for her. and she loves it.
this has been a pretty long post, but it was an eventful weekend. lessons learned: atlanta is fun, but only for visiting. dave & buster's is fun, but expensive. and most important: buy. tickets. in. advance.
No comments:
Post a Comment